By Portland Business Alliance Alliance board announces candidate endorsements for May primary election The Alliance board of directors endorsed a selection of candidates running for office at various levels of government, including the City of Portland, State Legislature, Multnomah County, Washington County, Clackamas County and Metro. The Alliance board endorsement […]

University of Oregon Regional Economic Indexes By Tim Duy Oregon Economic Forum University of  Oregon Oregon’s economy continues to expand at a somewhat above average pace. Highlights of the report include: – The Oregon Measure of Economic Activity was 0.11 in February, compared to a revised 0.32 the previous month. […]

Honorable Greg Walden Excerpts on Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Hearing on “Ensuring the Security, Stability, Resilience, and Freedom of the Global Internet” I cannot overstate the importance of freedom of the Internet from government control. Nor can I overstate the threat from foreign governments who seek to control, tax, […]

U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Esther Shein How often have you watched a TV show and wanted to look something up about an actor or find out more about a scene while you watch? So has Zane Vella. As the former software developer sees it, timeline-based metadata is the “missing […]

Associated Oregon Industries Oregon’s largest business advocate Two things.  First, would State Senator Betsy Johnson (D-Scappoose) face a primary challenge from the left? On some very key business, management, and environmental issues, Senator Johnson has joined with Republicans to block measures harmful to Oregon’s business community. With a slim 16-14 […]

By Jan Meekcoms Oregon NFIB Just like Oregon, Wyoming voters were sold on the need for annual Legislative sessions. Unlike Oregon, Wyoming was wooed into annual sessions for the purpose of fine tuning the state budget and dealing with emergency matters – that’s all, just the budget and any emergency […]

By Bullard Law, Portland law firm BENEFITS UPDATE SEVERANCE PAY, EMPLOYMENT TAXES AND THE SUPREME COURT Thomas Kramer, Employers sometimes provide severance pay to departing employees, whether as part of a severance pay plan or policy, an individual separation agreement or to settle a dispute between the employer and the […]

By Economist Dr. Eric Fruits, Econinternational Results from the Business Roundtable’s first quarter 2014 CEO Economic Outlook Survey show a moderate uptick in CEO expectations for hiring, sales and capital expenditures and some improvement in the Business Roundtable CEO Economic Outlook Index. The first graph in the press release shows the CEO […]

Associated Oregon Industries Oregon’s largest business advocate 2013-2014 Biennium AOI records legislator’s votes (floor and committee) on a selection of bills on which AOI took clear positions and reports the resultant scores to its 1,400 members throughout the state. Votes are tabulated as Opposed or Supportive of AOI policy. As […]

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis Blog Mark recently gave a presentation to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission in which he detailed consumption trends by age, income, occupation, city size and the like, based on the consumer expenditure survey data our office has been diving into a lot […]